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The Dillon tribune., 1887-07-15
How 1iadStOncS Arc FORMED.

Since the people have been convinced:
that there is virtue in matlsto.,c, the: arc
springing up all over the country. While
ut Cui"a Point Il few days ago w" saw a
magnificent maidstone, as large rs Il
Banks co,.ll;y biscuit. The gentleman
who OWLS this stone says ii c':s'ie from
AlalMma. where there was Il large deer
lick. They arr said to b. found i'll deer
who visit these licks, and the mineral
taken into the animals stomach there
forms the maidstone. The gentlrnl;'a ais"
informed ,,s that he had seen iva nad-
stones broken open. and in c:c ri ihcm
was found a bullet and in the other All
acorn Na,l,ioncs arc getting in demand,
and Il inc market will be open j! tho dogs
r0ntinu. IL have the lis,cn!vr Athens
GAY H.nucc.
The Dillon tribune., 1887-07-15
Drawing the Line.

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ssea,ier, havc we, Were born on the Texan
osasie: har" ' ,Seh reared on the broad
s'ese, run proved, herded cattle. kent
~ asss On ph,onil, mil, practicel physic. lee.
md ruiz a tlrn's laolosy, edited Il ucwspaDer
zen wh;nnoass store, but we hayc nsve,.
asadertakes !, H. and when any nsrson
:eseet it III, n nc win be pretty c'r,n;r tn -.
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The Dillon tribune., 1887-07-15
NOTICE.

Parties who have ,,hrn slabs from
Birch Greek Saw mill, are requested To
come forward and settle With NJ. F. Kirk.
patrick
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-06-11

sengers, tied Them on two pack animals,
mounted his saddle-horse, and driving
his pack animals before him re-entered
the land of the Blackfeet, as though
trying to trade on small scale. He de-
liberately distributed those death-dealing
blankets among the camps of that nation.
Three thousand Blackfeet were swept
into their graves by that fiendish act.
AS long as the grazing ground of the
Northern herd of buffalo, which stretched
from the Yellowstone to the plains lying
beyond the Saskatchewan, was compar-
atively inaccessible to the white hunters,
the business of trading whiskey to
Indians, though horribly degrading, did
not impoverish the tribes. The traders
refused to trade for anything excepting
the skins of animals They had no de-
sire to impoverish the Indians. They
wanted them to hunt and to cure buffalo
robs. They steadily deprecated the
wasteful slaughter of game animals. The
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-06-11
A sheet-iron Pool With $4,000, 900.

The formation Of another gigantic manu-
featuring pool was begun in this city to-day
At least $50, OOO, 600 is represented in the COM
sheet-iron and sheet-steel manufacturers in
the United States. A meeting was held by
the manufacturers in the afternoon at the
Chamber of Commerce. Pittsburg sheet
mills were fully represented, and delega-
ton was present from the near Western mills
and from Philadelphia and the East. The
object of the pool is to advance prices An
iron-wOrker who belongs to the Amalga-
mated Association, when told of the pool
remarked: 1T is a good sign. If the project
is carried out it will bring prices up to a
figure that will not allow manufacturers any
excuse for opposing the new scale which is
being prepared by the Amalgamated Asso-
citation. regard the move as Significant
Pittsburg Press DISPATCH
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JOHNNY'S L.ABORIOuS JOKE.
CHAD. M'CoY.
A soap-box Johnny got one day,

A soap-box Johnny got one day,
A joint of piping, too;
Said he; "a camera I'll make
And pictures I'll pretend to take,
AS other people do"
So when he got his instrument,
AS he considered, done,
He got table-cloth-then stood
The thing on legs, as others would,
In having just such fun.
Hi, sister" called he next; "pray come
And see what have made;
Sit there and mind you do not laugh,
And will take photograph,
Superior in grade"
To Rover and the cat he said:
Now, ready-one, two, three;
Stand steady there; yes, you may wink;
There, there, that's long enough, Think;
Now, sister, look and see
"Why, 1 see nothing, Johnny, dear;
It's empty, as | live"
"lIa! hal" laughed Johnny, cha Just so
/ ask you and you answer No.
Well, that's the negative
The ncgativcr' his sister cried,
go, my, but you're the wit"
And at his Photographic joke
Poor Rover into howlings broke,
And pussy had Il fit.
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Inspection of Car-Wheels.

The public is probably not aware that the
rigid inspection of equipment on every well
regulated railway goes so far that every
wheel is watched in its journeys so that the
inspector of wheels by reference to his books
can tell all about the age, the quality and the
maker of each wheel. Each wheel is guaran-
teed to do service for certain number of
miles, and the inspectors return those wheels
which do not fulfill the guarantee to the
maker, receiving new ones in exchange. On
roads like the Lake Shore and the Bee Line,
where several hundred thousand wheels are
in constant service, an inspector earns his
salary in picking out those which are de
fective. Several thousand dollars are ex-
pended monthly by these roads for the pur
chase of new wheels.-CteUeland Leader.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-06-11

faster in the ardor of pursuit. Flora was
the first to reach her prey and sprang at his
throat with a growl. AS the antelope
went tumbling over, the hound hanging
to him, Hercules closed upon another.
There was no escape from their sharp
fangs, and while the rest of the pack
rapidly disappeared across the sandy
plain we came galloping up to the VIC
Tins writing in the grip of the hounds.
A few strokes from our hunting knives
ended their sufferings. Wegutted them,
packed them on the horses and jogge.i
back home, having had an exciting and
run of six miles.
Thus ended the days sport The
horses were as proud as we were and
arched their pony necks, fiecked with
foam, in conscious triumph. Pane.
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juice on II, that
one was bad Indian He was killed a
year ago during the summers trade. The
Piegans were drunk and that devil had
made trouble. When the Indians got
sober they discovered that he was among
the killed" The trader looked across
the river toward the fort for an instant,
and added, inquiringly: "Quite a long
shot from the west bastion, Ell? and he
again spat on the corpse.
Up in British America, knew an In
dian trader called Liver Eating johnson,
who derived his queer name from the
roasting and eating the liver of an enemy
whom he pursued and killed. Johnson
loaded two wagons with whiskey at Fort
Benton,a place in those days wholly given
the upper Belly river he found suitable
place on which to build a fort. He
buried his whiskey barrels and began to
build log fort around his cache. When
the fort was two logs high, the warriors
of the Blood clan of the Blackfeet, led
by a war chief named Bull Back Fat,
galloped to the unfinished fort to talk
with the traders. The braves dis
mounted and with rifles in their hands,
crowded into the space inclosed by the
wall logs. They demanded that Johnson
trade whiskey for buffalo robes. 1t
would have been almost certain death to
have traded, so Johnson solemnly swore
that he had no whiskey, that his wagons
had been loaded with blankets, dry
goods, provisions, and materials with
'Nich to build the fort. The Indians
knew that he lied. They squatted on
the ground, wrapped their blankets
around them, then drawing the joints of
their ramrods out of the butts of their
Winchester rifles, they screwed them to-
gether and drilled the ground to find the
whiskey barrels. Presently a brave tel
egraphed to Bull Back Fat that he had
found the whiskey. The Indians rose to
their feet and gathered around their
chief, who faced johnson and said:
1--WE must go. The buffalo are wait
ing for us. When your house is finished
and you are ready to trade we will re-
turn" and he added, inquiringly, "You
have no whiskey? ?"
mot drop" johnson replied
"Then," said the chief, as his blanket
fell from his shoulders and his cooked
rifle came to the carry, "this whiskey,"
stamping his foot on the ground to indi-
cate its position, (which is buried in my
ground is mine and my warriors and l
will drink it,"
They promptly dug it up and tapped a
barrel. The traders hitched up their
horses instantly and left the Belly river
before the Indians got drunk. johnson
swore that he would have revenge.
When he arrived at Fort Benton he
found steamer, floating pest-house,
on which smallpox had travelled from
st. Louis up the Missouri river, tied
up at the river bank. His vengeance lay
to his hand He bought the blankets
that had been used by the diseased pas
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-06-11
CASUAL REFLECTIONS

A PROGRESSION.
Youth is the revelry of life
That laughs at consequences,
Manhood begins the sober strife
And age come to its senses.
~
Exchange states that modesty is the most
becoming garb maiden can wear. How
fortunate for some that there are other things
to wear
x*x
We read that pretty Patti announces that
this is her finale-her farewell trip. Alas it
is true that limitation comes with opportu-
nifty, for at this particular moment we can
not find our chestnut bell.
Nv
The dainty maidens are again wearing
masculine shirt-bosoms. This shows dis
position to keep abreast of the men.
~
A Georgia farmer the other day contempt
uously wadded his gun with the bill of a
persistent creditor and fired it into the air.
Exchange did not state if creditor consid.
cred the debt discharged.
~
A REvoLUTIoNIZER.
lell me not Ill DtTs
Life is but an emT DREAM"
Bid the cynic eat C, mbers,
See his views become extreme.
"IIife is real and life is earnest"
Cries he then with yielding will;
And his normal state returnest
As..e foots the doctors bill.
~
Fashion item states that red will be the
prevailing color at the watering places. 1t
usually is-but oh ! the next morning
~
A New Orleans maiden claims to have
lived seventeen days on air. She probably
camped out over the kitchen register
-
YE UT WE CAN'T
Could we forget as we forgive
The tickle friends who wound us,
Our wings would sprout beyond all doubt,
And Heaven would lie around us.
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his head without strain" Flora Dagmar
and Hercules, the hounds, were in prime
condition and seemed to un derstand what
was up.
We saddled the nags and logged across
the plain through the sa ge-brush. My
English friend would now and then raise
his tield-glass and scan the country until
finally he brought it down, shut it with
snap, and fastened it to its place, say
ing in low tone "Here away" turning
his horse in the direction as he spoke.
On we went, steadily keeping the hounds
well in until we saw twelve antelope eye
ing us with evident interest as we drew
closer. AS rule they will allow
horseman to approach them closely
before they realize that it is some
thing more than a four-footed animal
that they see. So we managed to
get within 200 yards before they took
fright, then Park turned loose the hounds
and with yell to our nervous horses we
were off like the wind. Never thought
entered my head of dog holes or gullies,
but my pony knew his business and
looked out for both. 1t was well he did,
for keeping my eyes on the game and
thrilled with excitement, | never noticed
a breakneck gulley until my pony rose
to it, startling me as much as if | had
been sent up Ike a skyrocket; but. how
beautifully he cleared it and kept on
without a check in his speed
The hounds were off like bolts from
cross bow, but it was not until the first
frantic break of the antelopes had slack
ened that they could gain. Coursing re-
quires feet-footed dogs, but there are
fine strains of blood in the packs
owned in this valley. Steadily the
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-06-11
WAYSIDE WISDOM.

WHEN THEY FIND US OUT.
Most men are square,
1t will be found;
Collectors swear
That we re not round.
x*x
A poet writes II reach and reach but
cannot grasp" He was probably trying to
catch hold of the atmosphere as the editor
fired him down the sanctum stairs.
**x
LIES PARADOX.
Our days mark one long paradox
AS sad reflection teaches;
A race to DEATH whose horrid goal
The very last one reaches.
Nv
IT'S said that the passing of the interstate
law has created a fellow-feeling among
actors. Very likely, for the other day we
saw sitting on a railroad tie one poor fellow
feeling his bunions.
x*x
Tennyson's jubilee ode is to be set to music.
This puts us in mind that Divine grace may
sometimes save the very worst of sinners.
Nv
GOOD FROM NECESSITY.
The virtues of declining years,
e Which wrinkled pruderies express,
Come when the soul too dull for tears
Sleeps from exhaustion of excess.
Nv
ALTERATION of Antipodes-Soap and So
cialism.
Nv
The Western Anarchists declare that there
will be painful panic in our midst in 1889.
Well, we may get reckless then and partake
of the colicky cucumber-who knows?
x*x
UPHILL WORK.
The men who seek to pioneer
Reforms in sentiment or thought,
Discover they have more to fear
Than had the pious Huguenot.
The cynic sneer, the soothing taunt,
That turn endeavor to offense;
And cry to honest aim avaunt,
Or make butt of excellence.
x*x
''There is something in that man like"
said one hungry tramp to another, as he
pointed to well-fed, hearty-looking Boni-
face.
"Whats that?' inquired the othera
ga square meal"
Nv
EVERYDAY GOSPEL.
impeachment, to tougher mind
Was made, not to defeat it;
The dangers half dispelled we find
When cheerfully we meet it.
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and killed. and their mutilated bodies
were thrown into rapidly flowing rivers
White men shot Indians as one shoots
dogs. The dead Indians relatives, drunk
with vile, reason-killing whiskey, sus-
pected other Indians of committing the
murders, and they killed them. So MUIR
der was fomented and increased. Here
on the banks of the Belly river fell the
war chief of the Bloods, Bull Back Fat
shot by drunken Piegans. There, Noun
tain Chief, the great council chief of the
nation, fell dead, shot by his own soldiers
Yonder at the foot of the bluff LittlePlume
fell dead. At the bank of that deep pool,
Star, half blooded chief of merit and
sagacity, fell, pierced by bullets from
rifles held by white men. AT that point,
the first above the fort in st. Mary's
valley, two white men, deserters from
the United States army, were killed.
That dark stain on the logs of the fort
marks the place where the lifeless bodies
of an Indian girl and her white lover fell,
after having been stabbed to death by
drunken braves. The whole Northwest
the reports of rifles and pistols, and the
twang of bow-strings and the whiz of
war arrows, and the shrek of the victims
uC ldSJ odlh uCuu ol bllC
plains. The last barrel of whiskey was
empty. The alcoholic fumes evaporated
from the brains of the Indians. The
powder smoke which hung around the
forts lifted, and there revealed to the
eyes of the government were the rem
nants of the great nations, lodgeless,
horseless, unarmed, debauched, diseased,
hungry and impoverished. They were
ripe for the agencies. The white traders
drifted off with their ill-gotten plumber,
and, am happy to say, almost without
exception lost their money in gambling
saloons or in protiigate haunts. l can
count on the fingers of one hand the
Indian traders who held their money
The trade is over. The traders are
gone. Never again will a similar class
of men be seen on this continent. They
have almost disappeared, an. with them
will disappear the last vestige of the So
called romance of the plains. know of
no parallel, outside of the recorded ope-
rations of tn rab slave-hunters in
Africa, which proaches in wickedness
the deeds of the Americana Indian traders,
who debauched, diseased and bankrupted
the aboriginal nations.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-06-11

Station, ON the
Utah Cen trail
road, is practi-
cally a W h oil e
m o un tain of
whiting, claimed
to be as fine as
the Spanish arti-
Gle. And n OF
thirty milesf from
the same station
are said to b e
iron oxide depos-
its, from which
can be made fire
proof paint, sew
en- t vt wo per
cent. pure. Their
are also in the
territory, within
easy reach, i'm
mense ochre de-
posits of a quail
ty equal to Ber-
muda ochre.
That it will pay
to work these Is
evident, as while
Bermuda ochre
can be bought
in st. Louis at
SIG per ton, it
costs $38 to
tr a n sport it
hither. TIL ere
are other valu-
able ochres and
clays in the ter
ritOry which car
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skins, poured into the re- >AV w
gion These men were fresh
from the slaughter of the great Southern
herd of buffalo in Kansas and in the Pan
handle of Texas The end of the Northern
Indian traders business was plainly
within sight The curb was taken off
the business. A scramble began to secure
the skins of the remaining buffalo and to
acquire horses and stock So-called
whiskey flowed as water at every trading
post. 1t was bartered for buffalo robes,
horses, rifles and handsome squaws.
The Indians were told to kill the buffalo
as rapidly as possible. Their camps
reeked with decayed meat and half-cured
skins. The braves staggered around the
trading posts in drunken masses. Fam
lily disputes, that had been smoth-
cred for generations, were settled
then. Daily rifles cracked bow
strings twanged, and enedged
knives were sheathed in CULVER
ing flesh. The Bloods fought with
the Piegans. The Piegans waylaid the
Blackfeet proper, The Crees caused the
air to resound with alcoholic-inspired
shouts and merrily stabbed one another.
Arapahoe braves, craZed by liquor,
fought to the death in their camps.
Throughout the Northwest the last great
Indian spree was raging. The squaws
and little children hid in thickets and
ravines, while their husbands and sons
sold horses, rifles, blankets, lodges, all
they possessed, for whiskey, and stag
gered, knife and pistol in hand, around
the white mems forts. The traders and
their employees became reckless, and
many white men, who ventured forth
from their protective walls, were set upon
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Thou She Could Pull Through.

II have made my will, dear" the sick man
said to his wife, land you will inherit every
thing Internationally But have one last
request to make, and that is you do not
marry again for two years"
How much is the property worth, John? ?"
inquired the weeping lady.
about 81, 6OO.h
"Well, JOHN" she said, "the thought that
you may possibly die almost breaks my
heart. but your last request shall be re
spected. | think | can accomplish it with
economy."-NeU York Sun.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-06-11
The Congo Real Estate Boom.

A while ago it was decided that Bishop
Taylor needed station at the mouth of the
Congo as a storehouse for goods intended
for his mission settlements up the river.
Mr.. Judson was sent to Banana to buy
suitable land for building. He has just re
ported that real estate at the mouth of the
Congo is held at prices as high as good
many lots in New York city. He says
Bishop Taylor has not money enough to
buy land at Banana, and he advises that the
storehouse be built at Kabinda, thirty-five
miles north of the Congo's mouth.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-06-11
The One Thing Lacking.

Are you doing any tennis yet, Miss
Mabcl?
mo- we haven't begun"
"But the weather is really beautiful"
"Yes, it is quite too lovely. But you see
our tennis suits have not come over from
Lon pm yet so we haven't been able to open
the Jason. "-Topn Topics.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-06-11

than the shotgun. The "still' hunter
who seeks them generally works the
foothills, thereby obtaining good cover
and easy access to the timid creatures.
This species of hunting is like that fol-
lowed in deer hunting, care and patience
being required, as the antelopes possess
When danger is first apparent they act
like herd of sheep, budding together;
then dash off as nearly in close pack as
possible.
winter they are often captured in
curious way while attempting to cross
the river. During the night, the time
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-06-11
A New Punishment.

for boys has been devised at a school in New
Bedford, Mass. Any breach of discipline is
Immediately followed by thorough wash
ing of the culprit's face. Order reigns in
that school
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INDIAN TRADERS.
HAVOC WROUGHT BY THEIR PRAC-
TICES AMONG THE TRIBES.

Whiskey Traded for Furs- Smallpox In
trOduced Among the Redskins-The De-
structiOn of the Buffalo Herds Puts an
End to the Old Methods of Traffic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-06-11

The Indian traders of the Southwest
seldom traded whiskey to their custom
ers. 1t was against the law of the United
States, and though they cared nothing
for the law in general they obeyed this
particular law, because their personal
safety depended in great measure on
its observance. A sober Indian is
dangerous customer. A drunken Indian
is fiend. He hungers for blood as a
ravenous wolf No man could trade
whiskey to Indians and live, provided
that he was not behind the bullet-proof
walls of fort AS | said, the South
western Indian trader seldom, whether
within or without a fort, traded whiskey.
Life on the Southwestern plains was
sufficiently exciting without introducing
the disturbing factor of alcohol. These
men were brave and reckless almost be-
yond belief, but they shrank from the
bloody scenes which promptly followed
the uncorking of bottled hell.
In the North the traders were the most
-blooded, hard-hearted, remorseless
surpassed the Arab slave traders of
Africa in deliberate, premeditated wick
edness. They shot, stabbed and poisoned
individual Indians as one would kill
wolves. They deliberately introduced
contagious diseases into tribes and swept
thousands of Indians into their graves.
They habitually traded whiskey for furs.
They impoverished Indian nations They
destroyed the manhood of the braves and
debauched the Indian women. Grim
spectres of debauchery, murder and loath-
some disease trooped around the trading
posts of these men. They stood be-
hind their protective walls and smiled at
scenes that would have made devils
blood run cold with horror l have seen
these men stand at unheaded whiskey
barrels and trade whiskey for buffalo
robes to drunken Indians-trade coolly,
keenly and ever watchful of their Gus
toners, while outside of their fort 5000
Indians, maddened by whiskey, ragged,
howled and fought in haze of powder
smoke, through which bright knives
flashed and red tongues of death darted.
l have seen the dead bodies of the war
riors who fell in these drunken combats
lie unburied where they fell until they
shrank to skin and bones in the dry air
In August, 1870, across the Belly river
from the trading fort of the Morton
Brothers, at Whoop Up, lay two Indian
corpses. Their shrunken black
skins were drawn tightly across
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hounds narrowed the distance be-
tween them and the fleeing pack, while
we followed behind in a mad gallop.
The pace began to tell on the antelopes
while the hounds seemed to go faster and
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Not Very Pretty, but Good.

NOt sery Tetty' Uu1 UOOtf'
He-Your friend seems to be very pleas
ant young lady, Miss Breezy. / quite ad-
mired her
Miss Breezy, of Chicago-Ye-es, Clara can
be pleasant and agreeable if she wants to,
but she lacks that indefnable air of culture
in society labor under such disadyantaees /
have always admired Clara's quality of heart,
but | have never been what you might call
stuck on her.-Atla7ta Constitution.